What Ilya Somin thinks about immigration
American legal scholar; professor of law at George Mason University's Antonin Scalia Law School and a contributor to The Volokh Conspiracy. Author of Democracy and Political Ignorance (2013) and Free to Move (2020); writes on property rights, migration, federalism and libertarianism.
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Our readingThe ubiquity of ethnic persecution under socialist regimes suggests a systematic pattern.
Their wordsThe ubiquity of ethnic persecution - often rising to the level of deportation and mass murder - under socialist regimes, suggests a systematic pattern.